Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-11
HOME AFFAIRS.
SAD CONDITION OF THE DROUGHT
STRICKEN REGION.
st. Louis Firemen KiIled-The Cali.
fornia Climate Discussed-The
Labor Party-Fruit Sales.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRp-uS1os.l
BUT PARTIALLY CORRECT.
A New York journal Attempts to Discuss
the California Climate.

Copy79ht, 1857 BY The California Associated Press.
New YORK, August 10th.-fSpecial 1.-The Com
mercidl AdrertiSer editorially says: 1--WE mad.
yertently allowed correspondent who is now
solourlning 500 In southern California to mention
the climate OF that region some time ago and
even TO make something like comparison be-
tween that and the climate further north. The
consequence Is that We are now beset and bonn
barded with facts, documents. thermometrical
records, signal Service reports and indignant
protests fired at us by editors ranchmen, fruit
growers and other classes of men who live in
the central and northern parts OF the great Pa
cific coast State We publish one of these letters
to day, and are moved to make the statement
that in touching upon California and its climates
our faith is founded upon personal observation
and careful inquiry in all parts of that State"
The Adierttser then says: In the first place
II Is important to remember, as most persons do
not remember, that the State of California
stretches from latitude 800 2S' to latitude $40
or very nearly from the latitude of Savannah to
that OF Boston. To talk about the climates of
California, therefore, is not less absurd
nan tIa a., % speak Of the climate of
California has many climates, and no very hard
ones. But, in addition to the fact of its great
extent from north to south. the topography of
California has effects upon local climate which
surprise and bewilder the casual observer and
set all preconceived notions at naught" 1t then
says that San Francisco is cooler in summer
than IN winter, and that Oakland differs greatly
from San Francisco in climate. There is val
ley at Berkeley, near Oakland in one part of
which plants flourish that are killed by cold If
planted half mile further up or down So
sacramento and san Francisco do not differ
much in latitude, or very greatly in altitude
and yet the mercury ranges nearly 1000 at Sac
ramento when 1t is lowering around 500 at San
Francisco The truth, broadly stated, is that no
statement which one can make with regard to
California is true, and none untrue so great are
the differences between one part of the State and
another, even when two localities are close to
getheT. The Sacramento Valley is hot in sum-
mer, and not cold in winter Oranges were ripe
there last year as early at Los Angeles or Riv-
erside, and from all that we have been able 10
learn, whether by observation, inquiry or the
study OF omcial reports. we can see no reason
why citrus fruits should not flourish there as
fnelyas at Old san Benadino, or anywhere else
in the State.
OF California is unlike the northern part in
every way-in people, customs, manners and
architecture, and adds THE people of San
Francisco are Californians, with all the charm
ing characteristics Cf Californ;gns fully derel-
oped and asreeably active The people of Los
Angeles are men from all quarters of the conn
try! recently dumped into town aud not vet
nodded into a homogeneous mass" In conelu-
sion 1t says: THE practical application of a |
TINS IS that our California friends must not ex-
poets casual correspondents who write for us
from particular parts of California to do more
tnan reflect the local color they see tinged
somewhat with the local pride and prejudice
through which they see it If u correspondent
be temporarily resident at Los Angeles or of
that region, and knows nothing of San Fran
cisco, 1t should cause no more surprise than it
Goes when man writing from New York dis
plays his ignorance of Charleston. California is
a great region-yast in extent. rich in actuali-
ties and still richer in possibilities. No man can
know of ii fully from what he sees and hears in
any single part of it,"
The communication alluded to is signed bv
William a. Lawson, of Marysville, Cal He
says: The last meteorological report of the
state Agricultural Society viii show that the
climate OF the Sacramento basin is inilder and
brighter than that of Italy, no, 10 speak of Los
Angeles The chief difference between the
climate OF this region and that of Southern Cali.
tornid IS that the rainfall here is greater and
morC sure